Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.